My bride is twenty. Innocent. She dreams of a fairytale prince. Too bad she marries the villain.
The nuns taught me to be obedient. To be the perfect wife. The lesson was clear.
From the moment I say ‘I do,’ I belong to him—my husband.
But the man who lifts my veil isn’t the boy I was promised, the childhood sweetheart I’ve been dreaming about for years.
My husband is a stranger, with dark eyes devoid of humanity and a powerful body with no hint of a soul.
Capo Giovanni Marchetti doesn’t want a wife. He wants control—and a weapon in his ongoing war.
He drags me to an isolated island off the Italian coast.
Locks me in a room. There’s no escape.
I am a prisoner on l’Isola di Lisca Bianca, at the center of a mafia war I don’t understand, held captive in a villa that hides as many secrets as it does threats to my life.
Screams that creep in on the sea breeze. Doors that aren’t there.
And a picture of a little girl my husband never talks about, and I’ve never seen…
I was taught to be the perfect wife, but the nuns never warned me I was marrying the devil.
The man who has stolen my future—and is going to punish me for my past.
My own personal damnation.
Because when Gio stalks me with those eyes, and drags those battle-hardened fingers across my lips,
I don’t want to escape.
